VOL. XXIV.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. ]JQ 



Concerning Hydatides voided by Stool. By Dr. IV. Musgrave, F.R.S, 



N°295, p. 1797. 



In April last [1704], I was called to see one Mrs. Pear of Tiverton. She is 

 about 30 years of age, of a tender constitution, had a bad habit of body, and 

 had about Candlemas last a fever which continued near three weeks, and was at 

 length overcome by testaceous powders, alexipharmacs, but chiefly by the cor- 

 tex. In this fever she had sour vomitings, and a pain in her stomach, which 

 remained a long time; and after the fever, it was accompanied with a plentiful 

 salivation; with wind, and pains in her side, to an extraordinary degree; under 

 all which she laboured to the time of my seeing her. 



About three weeks before my visit, she was seized with a jaundice, and while 

 taking medicines, viz. pilulas et decoctum ictericum Fulleri, for that illness, she 

 discharged several bladders by stool; and continued so to do, sometimes every 

 day, at other times once in two or three days, ever since the first discharge of 

 this kind, to the time of my visit. These bladders were of various sizes; the 

 least was of the size of a large pin's head; the largest, equal to a pullet's egg: 

 they were also of different colours; some white, others more yellow, from the 

 liquor contained in them, which was a sort of gelly, like that of hartshorn, 

 tinged more or less with saffron. 



Before the discharge of these bladders, there was, besides the symptoms 

 already mentioned, a coldness, and a sickness at her stomach, almost perpetual; 

 with frequent inclinations to vomit, and hysteric suffocations: since that dis- 

 charge, these symptoms have disappeared, and are succeeded by a soreness of 

 the same part, as if something had been torn there. The bladders came off 

 without pain; many of them whole and entire; one of which I saw, about the 

 size of a large gall, or marble stone: others were broken, and appeared not 

 unlike the empty skins of currants, gooseberries and |plums. One bladder only, 

 and that a broken one, came away by vomiting; which to all appearance had 

 been almost as large as a goose egg. The gelly thrown up with this bladder 

 and which in all likelihood had been contained in it, before it broke in coming 

 up, was thicker and more foetid, than was found in any of the other bladders. 

 The number of those discharged by stool, amounted to several scores. During 

 the whole course of this illness, the patient was rather loose than costive; had 

 no manner of appetite, and seldom slept without an opiate. 



I found her much wasted in flesh, with a dead pale look; such as argued her 

 being very low: she had stools of an unusual smell, no way natural, and had 

 vomited a great deal of cold phlegm. She was very willing to think these 



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